China Loosening One-Child Policy

BEIJING (AP) - China is loosening its decades-old one-child policy. The ruling Communist Party says it's also abolishing a much-criticized labor camp system. China's old family-planning rules limited urban couples to one child and two for rural families if the first child were a girl or if both the mother and father were only children themselves. The new rules allow couples to have two children if just one of the parents was an only child.